Dinesh D'Souza is best known for the anti-Obama documentary "2016: Obama's America"
LAWRENCE -- Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza will be speaking at Rider University Tuesday night.
D'Souza is an outspoken political commentator who directed "2016: Obama's America," an anti-Obama documentary released in the final months of the president's 2012 re-election campaign. It grossed more than $33 million.
D'Souza, who has written more than a dozen books, worked in President Ronald Reagan's White House and for conservative think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution.
In 2014, he pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance laws and was sentenced to five years probation and a $30,000 fine.
Tuesday's program is presented by Rider's Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics and will focus on "The Moral Case for Capitalism." D'Souza will be available to sign copies of his books after the lecture.
"We are excited to welcome Dinesh D'Souza to Rider and we hope that this is the beginning of an annual speaker series focusing on free market economics," said Ben Dworkin, director of the Rebovich Institute.
The event was made possible with support from the Hennessy Fund.
The program begins at 7 p.m. in the Cavalla Room of the Bart Luedeke Center, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrence. It is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested at rider.edu/dsouza.
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